lightclients

I've been seeing more support for relaxing Ethereum's use of state merklization by delaying it by a block or only computing the root every n blocks.

Friendly reminder that without some form of up to date commitment to the state (like a merkle root) general purpose light clients basically cannot function.

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Despite being a light client maxi, I support this

We need light clients, by we don’t need them to be as fast as full nodes

Subjectivocrat, Lunarpunk, Eschatologist | engineer @ Celestia

You still need a full node RPC service to query state. Light clients will just give you a eventual confirmation

If light clients aren't as good as a full node centralized RPC connection, users won't use them.

We need to be able to provide the same if not a better experience to get users and wallets to switch over, with security as an added benefit. I've learned this the hard way trying to advocate for light client usage.